Ethics of non-therapeutic child circumcision: Difference between revisions

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-}}</ref> Since children require a substituted decision maker acting in their best interests, they recommend to hold off non-medically indicated procedures, such as circumcision, until children can make their own decisions. Yet the CPS also states that parents of male newborns must receive unbiased information about neonatal circumcision, so that they can weigh specific risks and benefits of circumcision in the context of their own familial, religious and cultural beliefs.<ref name="CPS2015"/>
+}}</ref> Since children require a substituted decision maker acting in their best interests, they recommend deferring non-medically indicated procedures, such as [[circumcision]], until children can make their own decisions. Yet the CPS also self-servingly states that parents of male newborns must receive unbiased information about neonatal circumcision, so that they can weigh specific risks and benefits of circumcision in the context of their own familial, religious and cultural beliefs!<ref name="CPS2015"/>
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